Victorian battleships and steamships..can anyone help?

[classiquecreative]

Thanks everyone for their suggestions. If anyone knows where we can get hold of a decent HMS Benbow plan, I would love to know.

[paperboy]

I love your plans for building the Victorian's. I've been looking at building the French coastal defense battleship L'Indomptable. Plans are available from the french naval archives. I attached a picture of this ship in early configuration w tripod masts and open gun barbettes.

Vernon

[classiquecreative]

Thanks Vernon...hope life is well in South Carolina. Jack has made good progress and is working on two French ships of that era..Zelee and Jaureguiberry. Shame the philosophy of the French Naval archivists aren't extended to other countries...

[Golden Bear]

I have to agree with you Rosie. British ships are going to be the enormous gap in the selection of pd cardmodels... the government agency that controls the models is just ridiculous in the costing of plans, particularly if you have any idea whatever of turning it into a commercial kit. Shame on them. Shame I say. Those ships and plans were built with public money and should not be restricted by such petty bureaucracy.

I would love to model the Inflexible, Devastation and so many others of the British ships of the period. But nooooooo.

Kudos to France.


Carl

[David H]

Hi Carl,

Is that the PRO - Public Records Office?

D

[bigbenn]

Hi,
I have some prints and in some cases some plans of some of these ships - I supplied the Model Shipwright with some of his plans which later became one or two models and I'm supplying someone else too.
Pix are from public domain resources and all outside copyright and all referenced.
I particularly like the period 1850 to 1900 changeover from sail to steam.
Contact me if interested and we can kick around the options
BigBenn

[johnr]

Hi, I'm new to this list so hello everybody! My interests are those Royal Navy ships my family served on over 6 generations - I've been collecting images (mainly from the web) for years and am now (since I retired) starting to do watercolours of them and maybe model one or two. One of them is the 1885 Benbow hence my interest in the possibility of a paper model becoming available. Regarding decent plans, I believe the National Maritime Museum hold the originals, but charge a hefty sum for copies., which must be made in the original size. I'm ewaiting their response for the exact cost.
Regards, John

[jkrenzer]

Here is a good one from not too long ago in a Fine Scale Modelers mag.

US aircraft manufactures are exploring other revenue streams including royalties for all models of their particular subjects.

Claim is they own the artistic rights to the aircraft.

What is the worl coming to.

[looker]

Originally Posted by jkrenzer

What is the worl coming to.

Well it looks as if this time it's not coming to an end.

Johnr
Please lets us know how much they want for the plans. I've never had the guts to ask them.

[SergeyV]

I'd like to see citadel battleship "Italia"

Think, it would be a good adding to Duilio model.

Does anyone has plans for this beauty?

[logicman]

Nice 'Italia' pictures, Sergey.

Re: HMS Benbow - pictures of this and similar admiral class ships here:
MaritimeQuest - Main Page

Re: steam and sail - lots of free pix and info here:
Adriatic - ship images

and a good read here:

From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life by A. T. Mahan - Project Gutenberg

Britannia still rules the waves, at least here:
National Maritime Museum: sea, ships, time and the stars : NMM
which is from the world's best maritime museum - plug! plug!